Perineural Invasion Affects Biochemical Recurrence-Free Survival in Patients with Prostate Cancer Treated with Definitive External Beam Radiotherapy

Urology

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 111-116

  Yu, Hsiang Hsuan M ^a   Song, Danny Y ^a   Tsai, Ya Yu ^b   Thompson, Travis ^a   Frassica, Deborah A ^a   DeWeese, Theodore L ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Institute of Genetic Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER STAGING; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FOLLOW UP; GLEASON SCORE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERINEURIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSTATE BIOPSY; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NERVOUS SYSTEM NEOPLASMS; PROSTATE; PROSTATE-SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 34447559434     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: 15279995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2007.03.020     Document Type: Article

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